CHEONGJU, Mar. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – In a remarkable departure from national trends, North Chungcheong Province emerged as the sole region among South Korea’s 17 provinces and cities to record an increase in both the number of newborns and the total fertility rate in 2022. According to data from Statistics Korea, North Chungcheong Province witnessed [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Graduate students at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) are receiving an average monthly stipend of 1.66 million won, a figure significantly below the minimum wage, according to a recent survey. This has sparked discussions on the need for fair compensation, as these students not only [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The prolonged absence of resident doctors across South Korea has left remaining medical staff, particularly professors and attending physicians, grappling with an unsustainable workload. A physician from the emergency medicine department of a Seoul hospital who wished to remain anonymous shared his current state of distress, revealing that his [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent report by the Korea Creative Content Agency has revealed that minors are less likely to overindulge in gaming when their parents have a higher understanding of games and set clear usage guidelines. The findings, detailed in the “2023 Comprehensive Survey on Children and Adolescents’ Gaming Behavior,” were based [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Most trainee doctors who walked off their jobs to protest against the government’s policy showed little sign of going back to work on Thursday, a deadline set by the government for them to return to work or they will face suspension of licenses and even indictment. About 9,000 trainee [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Inflation could rise over 3 percent in South Korea in February on high prices of global oil and fresh food items, the finance ministry said Thursday, vowing all-out efforts to curb inflation. In January, consumer prices, a key gauge of inflation, rose 2.8 percent on-year, marking the first fall [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 300 trainee doctors who walked off their jobs to protest the government’s plan to increase medical school admissions returned to work during the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, an official said Thursday. The 294 were tallied as of 11 a.m. Wednesday in a survey of 100 key teaching [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Interior Minister Lee Sang-min renewed calls for trainee doctors to return to work Thursday as the government-set deadline is set to expire later in the day for their return from a walkout protesting the government’s medical school quota hike plan. The government has given thousands of interns and resident [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – In a move aimed at enhancing the accessibility of critical safety information for non-Korean speakers, South Korea’s Ministry of the Interior and Safety has announced plans to incorporate English translations of key details in emergency disaster alerts. These alerts, which are issued during situations such as air raids, earthquakes, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A mass walkout by trainee doctors is approaching a deadline set by the government to return to work, as medical services have been crippled with both the government and junior doctors showing little signs of backing down. About 9,000 trainee doctors walked off their jobs for the ninth day [...]